Monday, February 9, 2015

Book Series of the Week #18

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent.
And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the
fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she
never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the
Guardians and their power. And, when the fence is breached and her world
is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness.
Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the
one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth
about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world
surrounded in so much death?

"A
postapocalyptic romance of the first order, elegantly written from
title to last line."-Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan

"Intelligent, dark, and bewitching, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty. Mary's world is one
that readers will not soon forget."-Cassandra Clare, bestselling author
of City of Bones"Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth
is like cracking Pandora's box: a blur of darkness and a precious bit
of hope pour out. This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful
novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it."-Melissa Marr, bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange"Dark and sexy and scary. Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down."-Justine Larbalestier, author of How to Ditch Your Fairy

Gabry lives a quiet
life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest
and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger
for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy
to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches
from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier
cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she
left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands
and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead.
Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly,
everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s
generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one
thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save
herself and the one she loves.

There are many things
that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before
Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first
glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the
barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would
like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.Annah's
world stopped that day, and she's been waiting for Elias to come home
ever since. Somehow, without him, her life doesn't feel much different
than the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Until she meets
Catcher, and everything feels alive again. But Catcher has his own
secrets. Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah has
longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's
up to Annah: can she continue to live in a world covered in the blood of
the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?

Tabitha can’t shake the
feeling that something exists beyond the fences of her village. And when
she sneaks out, past the gates and down the path into the Forest of
Hands and Teeth, she meets a boy who teaches her heart things she never
knew. But love in a world surrounded by so much death doesn’t come
without its sacrifices, and Tabitha gradually realizes just how much
she’ll have to give up to live among the Unconsecrated.

From New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan comes an original story of love after the Return.